Quote from: Jessie Believer on July 03, 2016, 05:18:12 PMWell, you might wanna try this (hope my description works):
Example clicking the left leg:
Sit on the edge of a normal height couch with your left butt side hanging over (not sitting on he couch). So the left side will "fall" down a little bit. With the betz nail this position is already rotating the nail to some point.
Now if you want to click you still need to turn your left leg inwards, keeping your left foot stable on the floor.
The click came so easy with that one.
Other method was to sit on a chair. now lean your upper body very far to the left pressing your butt into the chair. then turn your left leg inwards.
Hope this helps somehow
JB
Thank you, Jessie. Clicking is now the toughest task for me. Sometimes it was so frustrating and I got confused on what I should do. The more different methods I tried, the more frustrating and confusing I felt. So I'll keep your method as my last resort for now.
Dream_catcher: Dr. Guichet internal femur - summer 2016
Quote from: ortholengthening on July 07, 2016, 05:46:11 AMDr G stated before that with hyper fast track some of his patients are able to reach 44 mm in 1 month.
Now that you are half a month post surgery,
Where would you say you are at? Is it possible to hit 44 mm in 1 month?
I don't know whether I'm in the hyper fast track, but I'm supposed to gain 40mm in 1 month if I click according to Dr. Guichet's schedule.
Quote from: ortholengthening on July 07, 2016, 05:46:11 AMDr G stated before that with hyper fast track some of his patients are able to reach 44 mm in 1 month.
Now that you are half a month post surgery,
Where would you say you are at? Is it possible to hit 44 mm in 1 month?
I don't know whether I'm in the hyper fast track, but I'm supposed to gain 40mm in 1 month if I click according to Dr. Guichet's schedule.
Quote from: paddy10tellys on July 09, 2016, 08:59:24 AMHey Dream_catcher, hope things are good. How are you?
I'm just trying my best to survive ;p
Quote from: paddy10tellys on July 09, 2016, 08:59:24 AMHey Dream_catcher, hope things are good. How are you?
I'm just trying my best to survive ;p
As YellowSpike and others had experienced, I indeed felt a lot better after two weeks. However, a lot better on top of where we came from is nowhere near comfortable. My mood fluctuated a lot. Most of the time I was suffering from pains, stiffness, frustration s, worries, etc. Occasionally I did feel like a king when all the bad feelings suddenly vanished for a short period of time.
Clicking on my left leg started to become very difficult and painful a couple of days ago. For an entire day, I tried and tried and tried...without any success. Painkillers didn't seem to have any helpful effect. Trying different methods only added more frustrations.
Only at very late in the night, between 1am to 2am, maybe when my nerves became sleepy and less sensitive, I was able to do clicks for my left leg. Making every click took about 6 minutes because the pain of it was barely tolerable. And I had to make up all the missed clicks in the day, 14 clicks, in a row. Yes, I spent about one and half hour in the midnight clicking my left leg for each of the last two days.
hang in there
there are many cheering you on
focus on the end goal!
Hang in there dreamcatcher! It's great that you're sharing your experience here. clicking can be really difficult for some patients, which I think dr. G downplays a little and doesn't get mentioned as often in diaries as I saw firsthand.
have you tried taking a painkiller before clicking? that helped some of the other patients I saw who also had trouble clicking to relax their muscles, which like you said can be the cause. another cause can be fast consolidation, which is a good problem to have in the long run though it may not seem like it now. those same patients who had clicking problems returned to walking unaided much faster than me and seem very satisfied today with with their results
Quote from: dream_catcher on July 09, 2016, 11:49:33 AMI'm just trying my best to survive ;p
whats that suppost to mean?. is ll really that bad?
Quote from: Slim_tim on July 10, 2016, 03:45:54 AMwhats that suppost to mean?. is ll really that bad?
You sure sound a lot different from the guy who was here for a long time...
Just my one observation...
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